Wednesday, February 7, 2018

He's also apparently on the National Council of Churches "Racial Justice Task Force."

Archimandrite Nathanael Symeonides has been elected Metropolitan of Chicago. He is currently the Director of the Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on Science & Technology and Director of Inter-Orthodox Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. Fr. Nathanael was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is a 2000 Graduate of Hellenic College and a 2003 Graduate of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He holds a ThD in Bioethics from Boston University, and an MS from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He was ordained a Deacon by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios in 2003 and a Presbyter by the Archbishop in 2010. He served as the Deacon to the Archbishop from 2006-2010 and as the pastor of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, NYC since 2010.

One of the ways that error has triumphed so easily in the modern Roman Catholicism is this idea that it is difficult or even impossible to determine what the church teaches. That mentality erodes any claim to epistemological certitude, which in the case of morality and other settled doctrines, undermines the entire edifice of the church.

So it is disconcerting to see this newly elected Orthodox bishop begin his answer with that same, erroneous assertion.

"The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide."